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Hi - All, When I upgreded to mint 14, I had NO sound....Though, mint 12 worked OK on HD audio in Windows.....running virtual box.....This time it wouldn't produce sound....So I changed to ICH AC97...Sound came through perfectly... I have another problem, though.....When watching a program video or sound, after a while the screen goes blank....sound/picture continues but I can't see it?? I thought this would be a setting in appearances, but it's NOT? I've looked everywhere, can't seem to find that setting. Great new mint 14 64bit....very fast and just WORKS!!!

...I have often noticed this complaint about freshly installed Debian based distros.The following procedure often works.

Left click on your sound applet.Left click on "sound settings" and the Mixer window opens.At bottom Left click on "Select Controls" andselect those controls you require.***often installations come with none selected and that is the problem***Close.Adjust volumne levels.Quit.Test.Hope this works for you.If it works, please mark your question as [SOLVED].

Jim1938...

Wirth's law - Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.